4.The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst

5.The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The author was only 23 at the novel’s publication, but it has been considered her finest work. The story follows deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various characters in a Georgia mill during the 1930s.

7.Spoon Fed By Kim Severson

8.The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

The author was inspired by a mysterious woman she happened across in a shop. Due to the unconventional characters that defied stereotypes about homosexuality, the book was popular among lesbians in the 1950s and is now considered a classic.

26.The Song Of Achilles By Madeline Miller

27.I Am Not Myself These Days By Josh Kilmer-Purcell

A hilarious story of a New Yorker’s dual life as an advertiser by day, drag queen by night. Kilmer-Purcell has been described as a writer who, “straddles the divide between absurdity and normalcy, and stitches them together with surprising humor.”